Crossword for Sun, 4/Jan/2009

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Across
1: Core of an ear

5: Like good penmanship

9: In working order

10: Rack up

11: Bad scenes

13: Cut down

14: Covenant

16: Sweet'N Low alternative

18: Computer bulletin board mgr.

20: Like many stump speeches

21: Part of a freight train

22: Continue to rant

24: Less welcoming

25: Competitive edge

27: Certain Mozart pieces

28: Radar gun user
Down
2: 'Sweet Pea' singer Tommy

3: Desire intensely

4: Walking-on-air feeling

5: Math term

6: Breakfast pan

7: The boonies, e.g.

8: Dog-___

9: Painful trials

12: Microcomputer's stronger kin

15: Make self-conscious

17: Gaps

19: Super saver?

21: Burgers' companion

22: Catlike carnivore

23: Sonata section

26: Krait kin




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